# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

- Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号
- English title "Health Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4141-102/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-3
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### 第三条（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Health Insurance Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4141-102/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  この法律（附則第一条ただし書に規定する規定については、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行の日前に行われた診療、薬剤の支給又は手当に係るこの法律による改正前の健康保険法の規定による療養費又は高額療養費の支給については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1</sup>
With regard to the payment of medical expenses or high-cost medical expenses under the provisions of the Health Insurance Act prior to amendment by this Act, pertaining to medical care, provision of medication or treatment provided before the date of enforcement of this Act (for the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1: 附則第一条 → 健康保険法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4141-102/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-1
- suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4141-102/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-3

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 健康保険法 附則第三条第一項（健康保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-3/par-1
- 健康保険法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-5/par-1
- 健康保険法 附則第三十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-36/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-022, translated 2026-10-11
- This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10
